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  • Switching from BIOS to UEFI boot on VMware

    I have OES 2018 SP3 servers on VMware ( planning to upgrade to 24.2 ) , is there a way to switch from BIOS boot to UEFI ? I'm lazy to create new server and migrate all services and data there. Anyone tried that ? Is there real benefit, when I switch…

  • How do I assign trustee rights from within a script?

    I'm doing a file migration from NetWare to my OES 2018.3 server. I have all the files but no trustee rights. This is not unexpected, but that's another lengthy story. rights -f /media/nss/DATA/VOL1/Office -r RWCEMF trustee temp2.OU I'm using the rights…

  • polkit vulnerability, anyone tried the work around on OES?

    re:polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034) The SLES patch isn't expected in the OES channels until about Feb 4th as per this morning's Product update. so has anyone tried the work around of removing the SUID from the offending /usr/bin/pkexec ? and any issues…

  • How to configure public_html in OES

    Hi all, I want to configure the public_html directory in the homedirectory for every user in my eDirectory. However, this works under this instructions not as I would like, because modapach.zip can no longer be downloaded and the settings under netware…

  • DNS DHCP Java Console blank login screen

    OES 2015.1 upgraded to OES 2018.2 novell-dnsdhcp-jc-1.4.4-0.17.1.rpm Login screen on the java console is entirely blank. Full res image is here . This occurred on all of the OES 2015 boxes I've upgraded thus far. All eDir services are working…

  • nss event audits

    HI A client has SIEM solution and they need to send NSS events to the SIEM solution. The SIEM solution can read logs files. So i enabled vigil /etc/init.d/novell-vigil start started vlog /opt/novell/vigil/bin/vlog -d --size 10000 -o /media/nss/DATA/log…

  • GetGIDsGroupListNumberOfGroupsOfWS: Error [81]

    Good morning Customer has recently upgraded from OES 2 SP3 to OES 2015 SP1 and for the most part things have been stable, however; recently we've been seeing issues with the OESCommonProxy User accounts, either the accounts are getting locked out…

  • NSS Volume empty trustee_work.dat file

    Hello, Had to recreate a NSS Volume to enable encryption. Everything went smooth and the system works now. NCP is running, users are able to mount the volumes and the trustee rights are all correct. However, when I was moving the files from backup back…

  • OES 2018 - 64 bit Pool/NSS volume 'unassigned' in cluster when volume Cluster resource 'unassigned

    OES 2018 - 64 bit Pool/NSS volume 'unassigned' when bringing the cluster resource online - this is a brand new 64 bit Pool/NSS volume - the other 3 Pool/NSS volumes are 32 bit and cluster mount - the cluster resourse does have the 2 cluster servers assigned…

  • IOS 13.5 Files App can connect to NSS volume but can not write to the NSS volume

    Native Files app on IOS 13.5 can connect to an OES2018sp1 server's NSS volume and I can browse the folder structure. I am unable to copy a file from the IOS device to the NSS volume, it throws a "Bad Descriptor" error message on IOS. However, I can share…

  • MF SMT 1.1 zypper migration ?

    I´m trying upgrade SLES 12 SP4 server to SP5 via "zypper migration", server has MF SMT installed and I came across this problem : zypper migration ... ... Can't get available migrations from server: SUSE::Connect::ApiError: Could not determine productID…

  • oes 2 linux - folder / file names are changing from uppercase to lowercase automatically!

    Hi, Folder / file names of the network folders (nss) are getting changed from uppercase to lowercase automatically. NW21OES:~ # uname -a Linux NW21OES **IP ADDRESS REMOVED**-0.85.1-smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 17 11:45:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux…

  • Using certificates from Let's Encrypt?

    Has anyone tested this? Beginning this fall, Safari will distrust any certificate with a validity of more than 13 months and chances are that others will follow suit. This is a major annoyance for us that have been using 3-year certs so I am contemplating…

  • change OES2015 IP address

    I want to change the IP address of an OES 2015 SP1 server. I will be decommisssioning it shortly but it currently has GroupWise running on it. I want to move GroupWise to a new server then use the old server's IP address that I bind to the new server…

  • OES 2015 -> 2018 grub boot failure

    Hi all, Upgraded one of our customers from OES2015 to OES2018 SP1 using the disk upgrade method and after few hiccups managed to get everything up and running fine with one exception, booting the server from disk! If we just let the server boot from the…

  • Common Proxy Repair Script - Can't Connect to LDAP

    I have five OES 2015.1 installations and am preparing to upgrade them to OES 2018.1. After reading about others having issues with the common proxy user when doing this upgrade, I thought it would be best to run the common proxy repair script and see…

  • Migrate NSS volume with software raid

    Hi. we have an OES 11 Server with iSCSI Data volumes. We wanna migrate the volumes to a new storage. I followed this documentation to migrate a volumes via the software raid function: https://wiki.microfocus.com/index.php/Mirrors_for_Moving_Partitions…

  • Is it safe to delete dhcp.log -#### files?

    I have a OES linux server that is running low on disk space I am not sure what log files are safe to delete. This server is running imanager and dns / dhcp.

  • Again updates instead of patches in the channel

    Again zypper offers updates but no patches: # zypper lu Refreshing service 'nu_novell_com'. Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... S | Repository | Name | Current Version | Available Version | Arch -- ------------------ ------------…

  • OES2018sp1/SLES12sp3 Kernel Panic

    We run a Scale Computing cluster that is a KVM based hypervisor (RHEL). I've created a few OES2018sp1 machines and at one time or another, during either a shutdown or restart (init 0 or 6), right before it goes into the MF splash screen, it locks with…

  • OES 2018 sp1 = SLES sp4?

    Looking to install Saltstack and their requirements are SLES sp4. Is OES SP1 upgradeable to SLES sp4? SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

  • Issues with tempfs after upgrading to OES2018

    For anybody upgrading OES to a version, which is on top of SLES 12, you should be aware that there was (is?) a bug in the upgrade script. Starting with SLES 12 the "run" directory changed from "/var/run" to "/run". And in "/var" there should be only a…

  • move_to_common_proxy.sh bug

    Hi. The current versions of move_to_common_proxy.sh script on both OES2015 and 2018 has a bug. After you execute the script with the required information, it asks for the context where to create the common proxy user, and states that if you don't fill…

  • OES18 Cifs Mac problems error message in logs.

    Hi. Our macs running various versions of os X and are all hitting CIFS issues on our latest OES18 servers. OES2 servers seem fine but on OES18 no end of problems being able to open but not save files, or not being able to delete them... Changing the log…

  • SMT: Checksum mismatch

    Hello, I have an SMT-Service which throws 'Checksum mismatch' at three files: Repositories with errors : * OES2018-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-Updates for sle-12-x86_64 (<a href=" ">nu.novell.com/.../" target="_blank">nu.novell.com/.../a>): - E '/srv/www/htdocs…

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